UPDATE: Overwatch Year of the Rooster Skins LEAKED

It comes from a Chinese player who accidentally stumbled upon an ad about the "free week" event of Overwatch in China, which included a brand new image of four new Overwatch skins.

The original Reddit poster says that the image, available to view in the gallery below, has text that reads "Journey to the West" and looking at the characters it would further suggest the skins are themed on characters from the Orginal classical novel written over 400 years ago.

The four characters included in the image can be found below, together with an explanation of what character they've been themed around.

Blizzard fans can look forward to a new Overwarch Chinese New Year event starting on January 24 which has been confirmed via Blizzard's various social media accounts.

A teaser clip has been posted on Twitter by the main account, accompanied with the caption “Good luck and great fortune await!” and a picture of Overwatch character Mei sporting a new Overwatch skin.

The official name for the event appears to be Overwatch: Year of the Rooster but currently there's no word on how long the event could last though with Chinese New Year on January 28th and a possible Valentines day event just a few short weeks later, we doubt it will run too far into February.

It's also unclear what extra features the event contains and with Blizzard confirming that Overwatch: Year of the Rooster will be roughly same size and scope as previous events, it's possible we'll get a new mode, redesigned maps and plenty of new character skins to fit the theme.

Overwatch Year of the rooster Skins and Screenshots

Your first look at the next big Overwatch event, Year of the Rooster.

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As previously mentioned, it looks likely that we'll see another second event in the not too distant future, as dataminers discovered plenty of Valentines themed voice lines.

Found during the games latest PTR testing phase, the voice lines all seemingly revolve around chocolates, with the character of Genji asking Hanzo if he has any chocolates today.

A second clip was also found with Genji telling Mercy that he has some chocolates for her.

With Overwatch events seemingly taking place every other month and with Valentine's Day lending itself to a themed event, it makes sense that this would be the next big content drop.

Speaking briefly back in December, Overwatch's Director Jeff Kaplan told fans on the game's official forum that Blizzard wasn't planning events for either Valentines or Easter.

"We do have some VERY cool stuff planned for next year," Kaplan told the forum, before then stating:

"To clarify without spoiling surprises: We are *NOT* planning a Valentines or Easter event.

"So yes, you can expect cool events. But just to manage expectations Valentines and Easter are not those events."

But there's no denying that Overwatch fans have found the audio files from the games PTR and we can think of no other reason for Genji to be offering up chocolates unless it's for a Valentine's themed event.

However, it's possible that Blizzard are looking to still cover Valentine's and Easter, but in a more low-key approach, such as offering new audio lines, emotes and possibly themed in-game microtransactions.